Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — FALSE TEETH CAUSE TROUBLE [ARTICLE]

FALSE TEETH CAUSE TROUBLE

They Lodge in Man’s Lung and Bring on Pneumonia. Lafayette, Ind., May 19. Porter Teak, aged forty, of Clark’s Mill, is dying of pneumonia caused by a portion of a bridge and false teeth which lodged in his lung when he sneezed while 4 dentist was working with him. Teak was nearly strangled when the teeth lodged in the trachea, but they were finally displaced and passed into his lung. Inflammation immediately developed and phyhicians say there is no ht.pe for his recovery.